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127 very fortunate, while another is miserable. A condition of great difference in this world is caused as a reward of meritorious work and evil consequences of wicked actions in previous life. If there be no such thing as gou Punya,-Reward for meritorious work, and 79 Pāpa,-Evil consequence of wicked actions,in this world, all the individuals in every grade of life, must be uniformly happy or uniformiy miserable, all must be uniformly healthy or uniformly weak or all must be uniformly wealthy or uniformly penniless.
He took per Dikṣā,-Initiation-at the hands of śramaqa Bhagavān Mabāyıra, along with his three hundred pupils.
Gañadhara Acalabhrātā was forly-six years old when he renounced the world. He readily knew the various works of Jain Scriptures as he had several Laldhes. After a period of twelve years of ascetic life, Ganadhara Achalabhrātă acquired 6 TT Kévala Gnāna,-Perfect Knowledge-at the aga of fifty-eight.
Gayadhara Mahārāja Acalabhrātá remained a Kévali for fourteen years and he acquired Hat Moksa Pada,-the Stare of Final Emancipation -when he was seventy-two years old.
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